Musl libc is a more preferable option if security and speed are important to you, compared to glibc, but is this currently the case? Do most applications still not work on musl? And how effective is gcompat?
Musl libc is a more preferable option if security and speed are important to you, compared to glibc, but is this currently the case? Do most applications still not work on musl? And how effective is gcompat?
Do you guys use the stock allocator?
Using mimalloc instead seems to work pretty well.
It does, I quite like mimalloc though I prefer to have programs compiled with their custom allocator rather than inserting them via LD_PRELOAD as I’ve found some issues when using it with programs like Firefox.
Chimera Linux builds MUSL with mimalloc. As a daily Chimera Linux user, I can say that Firefox works pretty well.
You may want to take a look at their configuration.
https://github.com/chimera-linux/cports/tree/master/main/musl